Animals
Not me, but my brother.
He'd been jobbing around building sites for a few months since training to drive a tele-handler. (Those things that look like a cross-breed of JCB and forklift truck). I'm not sure exactly how it came about, I think the people he was working for were contracted in.

The job was part of the massive logistical operation surrounding the cull of the majority of the UK's livestock following the outbreak of Foot & Mouth disease. He was actually paid a disturbance allowance, about £3.50 a day I think. Not much recompense for spending months among literally thousands of animal corpses.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 14:20, Reply)